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For Dementia Awareness Week<\/strong><\/p>\n

This week (from 17th \u2013 23 May) in the UK it is Dementia Awareness Week<\/a>. <\/p>\n

Some of you will know that I worked for Alzheimer\u2019s society until I retired a couple of years ago.
\nI would like to acknowledge the work of the society and to contribute to Dementia Awareness Week by posting ‘something different for me’: a short sketch each day called <\/p>\n

\u201cAll in a days work\u201d<\/p>\n

These are not remembered stories but real events I wrote up a long time ago right after the visit\/phone call.
\nAs support workers we had excellent support in the office but on the rare occasion I couldn\u2019t get there after I finished a visit or I was alone in the office I used to write down my thoughts and feelings and let the paper listen.<\/p>\n

The phone call<\/strong>
\nWanted: a listening ear, no suggestions, no advice, just listen and learn.<\/p>\n

She had been married before. He was an unloving and violent man and just when life couldn\u2019t get worse he developed Alzheimer\u2019s disease. It made the violence worse until he was taken away and eventually died. She met a man who had been married to a violent and uncaring woman. She didn\u2019t go into detail about that part but the wife eventually died.
\nThe unhappy man and the unhappy woman met and fell in love and have been married, so happily for 30 years.
\nHe was the gentlest sweetest man who ever lived. They were so happy together and spent the second part of their lives doing all the things they were never able to do in their previous marriages. <\/p>\n

Now he has the same disease, she is 86 years old and could no longer cope with him being up in the night, his constant repetition and his purposeful walking. She was exhausted. He is in care. She is heart broken. She needed someone to listen. I was there.<\/em><\/p>\n

\"Forget-me-not-One-person\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Remember the person<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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